What's New in LEADTOOLS v17.5

LEAD Technologies is pleased to announce the release of LEADTOOLS Version 17.5.
This exciting new version includes many useful enhancements to our existing products, as well as several new products and innovative technologies to assist you in your development efforts.
Major additions include a new framework for creating applications for the Cloud, new PDF and Document Readers, Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) support,
new high-level Barcode programming interface with support for Silverlight and Windows Phone, and a faster and more accurate Advantage OCR Engine.
Additional new features and enhancements include speed improvements for multimedia codecs and image processing functions, new tools for 2D and 3D medical image viewing,
new Network Virtual Printer, new multimedia streaming filters, and additional file formats.
This new version is especially suitable for developers in the document, medical, and multimedia imaging communities who are looking for advanced imaging features and tools for
rapid development with the stability, performance, and support LEADTOOLS customers have come to expect.

New products and Major Additions to the LEADTOOLS Product Line

LEADTOOLS now includes comprehensive PDF reading and viewing with advanced capabilities such as support for extraction of text, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and metadata.
Developers can take advantage of these properties to enhance their applications with dynamic document viewing, editing, and assembly features.

The LEADTOOLS Document Readers allow reading images, thumbnails, text, and metadata from any supported document format, using a uniform set of methods and properties,
regardless of the document type.
The high-level LEADTOOLS Document Readers interface can be used to easily create feature-rich document viewing applications with unlimited zoom, smooth scrolling, thumbnails, metadata,
and text search without the need to know any specifics about the format you are using.

LEADTOOLS Barcode functionality has been expanded with a new set of libraries for Silverlight and Windows Phone.
This addition makes it easier for developers creating web and mobile applications to implement barcode features, which previously required the use of an external server via WCF Services.
Now Silverlight developers empowered by LEADTOOLS can develop robust and compelling barcode applications that run natively on their respective platforms.

In addition to the new platforms, LEADTOOLS boasts a redesigned Barcode .NET interface.
This high-level and programmer friendly interface can read all barcodes in an image with a single function call.
This intuitive new interface also handles the complexities of the extensive collection of barcode symbologies LEADTOOLS supports.

LEAD Technologies has a rich history of providing the fastest imaging development tools and staying ahead of the latest technology trends.
Consequently, LEAD is pleased to introduce the all new LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK.
This ground-breaking framework can be used for creating cloud-based, distributed computing applications with unlimited potential for speed and platform independence.

Utilizing their own existing network of servers and worker machines, developers can easily create any kind of distributed, grid, or parallel computing application such as OCR,
Forms Recognition and Processing, Barcode Recognition, Audio/Video conversion and encoding, web crawlers, distributed graphics rendering, and more.
By developing a LEADTOOLS cloud, processor intensive and time consuming tasks can be handled by your network of worker machines in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Medical Engine

Medical Workstation now fully supports customization and localization.
Users can easily change the look and feel or language strings of the Medical Workstation for re-branding or localization purposes.

New Modality Worklist (MWL) and Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS) WCF Service Component for the
PACS Framework

With the release of LEADTOOLS Version 17.5, LEAD reinforces its position as the world-leading developer of imaging and imaging related SDKs.
LEAD is dedicated to being the only choice for developers who want a comprehensive and time-tested imaging SDK that stays at the forefront of new imaging technologies and development paradigms.

LEADTOOLS is a family of comprehensive toolkits designed to help programmers integrate raster, document, medical, multimedia and vector imaging into their desktop, server, tablet and mobile applications.